U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its July 2011 ACE Trade Account Owner Update, which contains information on the new features and edits of the next ACE release, e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail (M1), which is expected to be deployed in pilot form in September.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is announcing that the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (COAC) will meet on August 18, 2011 in Long Beach, CA, and for the first time is offering a live webcast via the Internet of the meeting, as an alternative to attendance .
On July 27, 2011, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Deputy Commissioner Aguilar hosted a Trade Day forum with several groups, including Businesses for a Better Border, also known as B3.1 Among other things, CBP states that a pilot using single application requirements for Canada's Partners in Protection Program (PIP) and CBP's Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) was very successful and that CBP is looking at expanding the pilot in September.2
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an information notice on the Importer Security Filing (ISF) Portal that includes information on the recently announced ISF Reports available on the ISF Portal via the ACE Portal. The notice states that this new feature is available for Trade Account Owners with Importer, Broker, Carrier (VOCs, NVOCCs), or Surety views. Importers can download in PDF or Excel, depending on the type of report they received by email, while others are able to download their reports in PDF and Excel formats. The notice also states that Cross Account Access can be provided.
Phone companies aren’t the only industry group divided by potential Universal Service Fund change proposals. With a group convened by USTelecom poised to give the FCC on Friday a plan to make USF pay for broadband (CD July 26 p1), large and small cable operators also have different views on that framework. Just as major phone companies like AT&T and Verizon are expected to back the plan, with some mid-size telcos also joining in, the biggest U.S. cable operators also may support many if not all parts of the plan. As with small telcos that are net recipients of USF money and intercarrier compensation funds, cable operators that get such money also may back few if any aspects of the framework. That’s according to interviews with cable executives Tuesday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is announcing that the following individual Customs broker licenses, as well as any and all associated permits, have been cancelled due to the death of the broker:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is announcing that the following Customs broker licenses, as well as any and all associated permits, are cancelled without prejudice:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has updated its comprehensive ACE Frequently Asked Questions document by adding a section on Post Summary Corrections. In this new section, CBP states, among other things, that only the most recent PSC filer will receive the ABI courtesy notice of liquidation.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
The Canada Border Services Agency has issued a notice to importers and customs brokers who submit Form B3-3, Canada Customs Coding Form, to CBSA for the release and accounting of goods in the air and marine modes and there is no carrier code for the transporter of the goods. The CBSA system normally requires a carrier code to be entered into Field 46, Carrier Code at Importation, of the B3-3 where the total value for duty is $2500 or more in the air and marine modes. In certain situations, goods arrive in Canada in these modes and there is no applicable carrier code, i.e. passenger, on an aircraft carrying commercial goods. In these situations, the importer or customs broker is to use code 8 in field 7 of the B3-3. Field 46 is to be left blank.